Reddit reviews A Cultural History of Physics

Take a look at A Cultural History of Physics by Károly Simonyi. You can find an excerpt of the book here (pdf). I have not had the time to read it myself, but I'm very impressed by it from just looking at pages at random.

["In quantum mechanics, there is a common misconception that it is the mind of a conscious observer that causes the observer effect in quantum processes. It is rooted in a misunderstanding of the quantum wave function ψ and the quantum measurement process."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

I'm not saying that the presence of a mind causes the observer effect. To me, All is the Mind. All objects have consciousness to some degree or another. I am saying the state of the mind causes the collapse. This goes for the state of any machine which is observing the process as well as if All is Mind it also has a mindstate as well. If you still view that as wrong due to misinterpretation of the process, if you have an ELI5 somewhere, or a book I can read on the topic, that'd be magical. Wikipedia is nice, but only if you have a degree in the matter. I'm going to be reading Giancoli and this really soon.